{"id":333407,"date":"2026-07-08T18:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333407\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:43:30","slug":"saharan-dust-reaches-miami-creating-hazy-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333407\/","title":{"rendered":"Saharan Dust Reaches Miami, Creating Hazy Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A plume of Saharan dust arrived in South Florida on Wednesday, July 8, and was forecast to lower air quality and visibility across the <a data-ylk=\"slk:Gulf Coast.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CopernicusECMWF\/status\/2074867194769408247\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage from several Department of Transportation live cameras shows hazy conditions around Miami-Dade County on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:According to;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMiami\/status\/2074777663001051433?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">According to<\/a> the National Weather Service (NWS), this phenomenon happens &#8220;multiple times every summer,&#8221; with the dust leading to &#8220;hazier skies, lower rain chances, and higher temperatures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The NWS <a data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSMiami\/status\/2074777663001051433?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> &#8220;hot and dry&#8221; conditions would persist across South Florida throughout the day on Wednesday. Credit: Florida DOT via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plume of Saharan dust arrived in South Florida on Wednesday, July 8, and was forecast to lower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7808,123,125,124,373,38816,807,45642],"class_list":["post-333407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-saharan-dust","tag-south-florida","tag-the-national-weather-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}